On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:04:44AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: >> > Poor Simon Sandström. >> > >> > Funnily enough, this only exists for one commit. You've got several >> > other commits from Simon that get his name right. >> > >> > What happened? >> >> I don't know what happened, I used git for this, I don't use quilt for >> "normal" patches accepted into my trees anymore, only for stable kernel >> work. >> >> So either the mail is malformed, or git couldn't figure it out, I've >> attached the original message below, and cc:ed the git mailing list. >> >> Also, Simon emailed me after this was committed saying something went >> wrong, but I couldn't go back and rebase my tree. Simon, did you ever >> figure out if something was odd on your end? >> >> Git developers, any ideas? > > The problem isn't on the applying end, but rather on the generating end. > The From header in the attached mbox is: > > From: =?us-ascii?B?PT9VVEYtOD9xP1NpbW9uPTIwU2FuZHN0cj1DMz1CNm0/PQ==?= > <si...@nikanor.nu>
Slightly related, once in a while I get funny emails through git-commits-h...@vger.kernel.org, where the subject is completely screwed up: Subject: \x64\x72\x6D\x2F\x74\x69\x6E\x79\x64\x72\x6D\x3A \x6D\x69\x70\x69\x2D\x64\x62\x69\x3A \x53\x69\x6C\x65\x6E\x63\x65\x3A ‘\x63\x6D\x64’ \x6D\x61\x79 \x62\x65 and some of the mail headers end up in the body as well: =?UTF-8?Q?\x75\x73\x65\x64_\x75\x6E\x69\x6E\x69\x74\x69\x61\x6C\x69\x7A\x65\x64?= Return-Path: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Git-Commit: b401f34314db7c60e6d23ee7771cd090b4ef56c1 X-Git-Parent: 1e8ad3d8da4763b238d09244d4d1177aa640c0d3 X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master Web: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/b401f34314db7c60e6d23ee7771cd090b4ef56c1 Commit: b401f34314db7c60e6d23ee7771cd090b4ef56c1 Parent: 1e8ad3d8da4763b238d09244d4d1177aa640c0d3 Refname: refs/heads/master Author: Noralf Trønnes <nor...@tronnes.org> AuthorDate: Thu Feb 23 14:29:55 2017 +0100 Committer: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com> CommitDate: Fri Feb 24 12:08:58 2017 +1000 drm/tinydrm: mipi-dbi: Silence: ‘cmd’ may be used uninitialized My first guess was Noralf's UTF8 last name, but after looking at a few more, they all seem to have UTF8 quotes from gcc output in the oneline summary. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds